ABSTRACT

The office is changing. The traditional model of an employee spending nearly all of their time working from a fixed workplace in the office is becoming less dominant with an increasing number of employees working either outside the office or using the office differently. People are working from home, mobile working (for example from trains and planes or from public spaces such as airports, train stations and coffee shops), working elsewhere in the office such as conference rooms, the new diversity of breakout or third spaces (places in the office that are available for people to use on a flexible basis), sharing a workstation with colleagues, using external co-working spaces or a combination of these (Taylour and Jordan, 2014).